2021 Trip To Texas

[JEBar]

we hope to get on the road around 9AM for today's scheduled drive to Baton Rouge KOA should cover just under 300 miles and take about 5 hours .... weather forecast is good, no rain predicted

[BigAl52]

Safe travels Jim. Hope your trip back home is smooth

[Hatchdog]

Just like Saturday at a PGA golf tournament it’s, “moving day”.

Safe travels and sunny skies!!!!!

[markiver54]

Hoping Ya'll have a safe trip and the highways are clear for you!

[brm4450]

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[JEBar]

good wishes appreciated .... during our last 3 weeks at Conroe we put 210.6 nontowing miles on our truck .... I-10 in Louisiana has had a reputation for being extremely rough for as long as I can remember .... while they have fixed some of it, other sections continue to be a disgrace .... bottom line, I'm happy to be able to say we are setup at Baton Rouge KOA after a 317.6 mile drive that took us 5 hr 24 minutes .... once we got here, it took much longer than normal to put everything that had bounced out of cabinets back into place ..... it looks like the latest series of storms is moving north of us and we won't cross paths with it until sometime Wednesday .... hopefully by then something will change and we will miss it all together .... our truck's fuel consumption since filling it a month ago has been way off .... based on past experience I believe the fuel we purchased must have been B20 .... we didn't plan to take on any more fuel until tomorrow but from looking at the gauge that was going to cut it to close .... so, my wife checked her TSD fuel discount app and found a Petro where we took on 30 gallons .... we still plan to fill the truck during tomorrow's drive ....

[BigAl52]

Sounds like the roads down Denver way. It seems we cant find any road engineers and bridge engineers that agree on bridge and road height. Our local city just raised sales tax to build and improve roads. Seems they have trouble find people that know how to build roads because even the new roads are rough. There is spots in Denver I will slow down to around 25 to 30 mph because Im not going to subject my suspension on the fifth wheel or my truck to that abuse. Maybe if they get enough people impeding traffic they will fix the roads.

[JEBar]

cloudy morning in Denham Springs at the Baton Rouge KOA .... no rain anticipated during today's 314 mile drive over sections of I-12, I-10 and I-65 to Greenville, AL .... with a planned fuel stop along the way it should take about 5 hrs

[JEBar]

today's drive ended up taking us 5 hr 53 min to cover 332.4 miles .... thankfully, the interstates we traveled today were in a much better condition than those of yesterday .... everything pretty much stayed in place inside the camper for the entire trip .. .. 2 stops, one for fuel, on simply to take a short break .... we are now setup near Greenville, AL at Sherling Lakes .... its location is handy for us both going to and returning from Texas .... over the years we have found it to be a good place to spend the night .... at $30 a night for a 50 Amp / full hookup site its reasonably priced .... by comparison, last night's 50 Amp / full hookup sit at the Baton Rouge KOA cost $58 .... its a good thing we settled in for the evening, per AccuWeather "Rain, heavy at times will continue for the next 49 minutes."

[markiver54]

today's drive ended up taking us 5 hr 53 min to cover 332.4 miles .... thankfully, the interstates we traveled today were in a much better condition than those of yesterday .... everything pretty much stayed in place inside the camper for the entire trip .. .. 2 stops, one for fuel, on simply to take a short break .... we are now setup near Greenville, AL at Sherling Lakes .... its location is handy for us both going to and returning from Texas .... over the years we have found it to be a good place to spend the night .... at $30 a night for a 50 Amp / full hookup site its reasonably priced .... by comparison, last night's 50 Amp / full hookup sit at the Baton Rouge KOA cost $58 .... its a good thing we settled in for the evening, per AccuWeather "Rain, heavy at times will continue for the next 49 minutes."

Supposed to get very wet, and then cold Jim. Hunker down and be safe, as winds. At least here, are supposed to get brutal!

[JEBar]

last task for the evening is to set our clocks (the trucks included) ahead 1 hour to get them back on Eastern time .... history tells us that coming so close as jumping ahead an hour for daylight saving's time will take some getting used to ....

[markiver54]

last task for the evening is to set our clocks (the trucks included) ahead 1 hour to get them back on Eastern time .... history tells us that coming so close as jumping ahead an hour for daylight saving's time will take some getting used to ....

Carol says the same. However,
My experience is : gimme 24 hrs, and I'm adjusted and back on course.

[JEBar]

it rained sometime last night but no more called for before noon .... today's drive takes us around Atlanta, that's never a pleasant .... we hope the forecast is correct and we will skirt the major storm front that will be moving parallel to our route .... this is scheduled to be the longest day's drive for our return trip home

[GeoBoy]

Safe travels.

[Sir Henry]

last task for the evening is to set our clocks (the trucks included) ahead 1 hour to get them back on Eastern time .... history tells us that coming so close as jumping ahead an hour for daylight saving's time will take some getting used to ....

I’m on Pacific Retired Time all year. I get up when I want, eat when I want, and go to bed when I want to regardless of what the clock says.

[JEBar]

I’m on Pacific Retired Time all year. I get up when I want, eat when I want, and go to bed when I want to regardless of what the clock says.

one of my goals is to eventually evolve that far ..

[markiver54]

I’m on Pacific Retired Time all year. I get up when I want, eat when I want, and go to bed when I want to regardless of what the clock says.

one of my goals is to eventually evolve that far ..

Jim, as much as Ya'll travel, your time changes more than most.

[JEBar]

our travels are most certainly taking us back home the same storm front that is all around us here in Aiken, SC is dumping rain on our home in NC ....

[Sir Henry]

our travels are most certainly taking us back home the same storm front that is all around us here in Aiken, SC is dumping rain on our home in NC ....

Stay safe my friend.

[JEBar]

our longest day's drive for this trip covering 386.1 miles in 6 hrs 33 min is history and we are setup in Aiken RV Park .... our drive from Sherling Lake almost to Atlanta went smoothly .... just short of Atlanta we ran into rain that quickly escalated into an out and out deluge that restricted our vision in all directions .... one would think that such conditions would slow the speed of the traffic but NOOOOO .... all that needs to be added is we made it .... after turning east onto I-20 we out ran the storm and were able to reach Aiken RV Park, then get setup before the rain hit .... it is supposed to hang on for another hour or so and once it moves out, the forecast says we should have clear weather all the way home .... that'll be nice